About Humans of Growth: Stories & Strategies Behind Business Growth & Business Development
Behind every business & its growth is a human in the trenches. On Humans of Growth, host Aly Hathcock interviews CEOs, CMOs, and marketing executives driving business development, demand generation, and brand strategy. These aren’t surface-level chats about lead funnels and KPIs. They’re raw, insightful conversations that reveal how real leaders build marketing engines, scale revenue, and create lasting customer relationships.
Expect candid stories about leadership, growth marketing, sales enablement, brand positioning, content strategy, customer acquisition, and everything in between. From scrappy startups to enterprise marketing teams, we explore the playbooks, mindsets, and human decisions behind business growth.
If you care about branding & positioning, marketing strategy, sales & customer retention, or the future of growth, this is your podcast.
You are being served over 800 pieces of unsolicited content every day. You dismiss almost all of it.The ones you do not dismiss have one thing in common: they feel like they were made for someone like you. Not by a celebrity you will never meet, not by a generative AI that has never used the product. By a real person whose life looks something like yours.That is what relatable content at scale actually means. And it is the reason follower count has stopped being the most important variable in creator marketing strategy.In this episode of Humans of Growth, Aly Hathcock sits down with Matthew Wilson, Global Head of Revenue at Scale Social AI, to break down how creator marketing has shifted, why one-million-dollar celebrity posts are losing ground to armies of nano and micro creators, and how AI is being used not to replace human content but to help brands get more of the right human content, faster.Matthew walks through the three algorithmic signals that actually determine content reach today (quality, originality, and engagement diversity), why a brand with a diverse audience cannot speak to everyone through a single spokesperson, and how AI-powered content intelligence allows brands to respond to audience behavior in near real time instead of waiting 30 to 60 days for a research report the audience has already moved past.In this episode, we cover:✔ Why 800+ daily content impressions have made relatability the single most important creative variable✔ The three platform signals that determine content reach: quality, originality, and engagement diversity✔ Why follower count no longer drives distribution the way it did five years ago✔ The case for nano and micro creators: how five creators at 5,000 followers can outperform one celebrity deal✔ How AI removes subjectivity from creator selection and lets audience behavior make the call✔ Why generative AI content is generating backlash on social while AI-assisted human content is gaining ground✔ The difference between passive UGC, briefed influencer content, and the hybrid approach in between✔ How near real-time content intelligence allows brands to act on audience signals before the moment passes✔ Using data to make the case for a creator strategy change when the CMO still wants the celebrity deal✔ Why relatable content at scale is the next frontier for both enterprise brands and local businesses competing on limited budgetsIf you are a CMO, head of social, performance marketer, or brand marketer trying to figure out how to get more from your creator budget without throwing it at a single high-profile name and hoping it works, this conversation will change how you think about what content actually moves people.Because the algorithm already knows what your audience wants to see. The question is whether your creator strategy is listening.
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AI Search Citations: How Earned Media Gets Your Brand Found in ChatGPT
Host Aly Hathcock interviews Natan Edelsburg, Chief Partnership Officer at MuckRack, about how earned media drives brand visibility in AI search engines like ChatGPT.
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Why the Founder Is Usually the Reason the Business Stopped Growing
Host Aly Hathcock interviews founder Larry Waddell about how founders often become the bottleneck to their own business growth and how to break through that barrier.
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